Performers:

Please join the Alliance Francaise-San Francisco, along with Brooks Roddan and IF SF Publishing at a publication launch reception and author reading for a new novel, MONSIEUR AMBIVALENCE: A Post Literate Fable by Thomas Fuller.

French wines and hors d'oeuvres will be served

QUI EST MONSIEUR AMBIVALENCE?

Set in a small village in France, the story revolves around an American man attempting to sit quietly in a room by himself for one hour, a method promoted by the 17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal as the prescription for all of mankind's ills. Tempted by almost everything -- fine wines, the grandeur of French cuisine, the beauty of the French countryside, contemplations of the sublime and the ridiculous -- our hero soldiers on in pursuit of his special brand of solitude and uncertainty, desapite the distractions of neighbors and a highly intelligent female companion.

Author Jean-Pierre Bezoux says of the book, "Lovable and exasperating, a courageous weakling, Monsieur Ambivalence is a friend to all of us who cannot seem to live with ourselves, but who cannot stop hoping to believe that someday we can."

ABOUT THE AUTHORThomas Fuller lives in a village in rural France, dividing his time between poetry and prose. he writes poetry in small homeopathic doses when he feels like it, and prose when he doesn't feel like writing poetry.